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Whats the Vector Based software thats is good for graphics Designing and Printing?
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[Gort]

I use Illustrator for almost every print job, although for paginated jobs I'll use InDesign; I tried Freehand "back in the day" but found it a bit overwhelming.
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i started when freehand was v2 and illustrator was a meer 88, freehand won me over hands down for its simplicity 1 tool to select paths and points..

i started using CorelDraw 3 back in '92 and found it the biggest heap of steaming crap i'd ever used.. then i had to put up with it back in '99 when they'd loaded it with even more of the same..

back in '92 it couldn't even import its own EPS file, and even in '99 it had errors galore..

illustrator is way too bloated now, congratulations to Adobe for sticking a load on un-useful stuff in it! oh and i forgot, I9 used to be able to open any and i mean any eps file and you'd be able to edit it how it was. but with I:CS u open an EPS and you'll be lucky if it looks how it should.. the only good thing about Illustrator is the 3D tool.. so for that reason i've stuck with Freehand

i've found with most vector and 3D apps its what u start out using that you'll prolly stick with because u get used to the workflow..

InDesign is gr8 for Paginated design, so is XPress, i started using Pagemaker thinking it was the daddy, then moved jobs and had to learn XPress and loved its precision, and now moved on to InDesign because the way it handles placing EPS files and non-EPS printers it also natively exports to PDF without the need of acrobat distiller

[Gort]

Well Bob I could say the exact same thing abour Freehand - it's enormously bloated too! I've used Illustrator for a long time, so I'm very used to it and welcome some of the new features.

For what it's worth, a coworker turned me on to Corel's XARA back in the late 90s, and I tooled with it for a couple of years; at the time I thought it was solid and a good counterpart to Illustrator, but Corel never marketed it, and I still wonder why they didn't to this day - it was a great program. Hey - lookee 'ere, lad:

http://www.xara.com/
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Okay, related question.
I've Illy 8, the hubby has Freehand MX. Being an Adobe Addict, I've never really even looked at FH.

I've heard bad things about CS, and that 10 wasn't too great either, so I haven't upgraded, but I do miss the transparency option, which I8 doesn't have. Does FH offer it? It would probably be the wedge in the door to get me dabbling in it, as I'd be importing .ai's over for transparency. As it is now, I use PS 7.01 when I need reduced opacity for a layer...
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hey Gort its like i said, its whatever you started out using oh and i h8 waiting for a package to sort through all my typefaces b4 opening

yeah i know about xara, old client dropped me for the web button maker they're coder likes to play ..

Sweetums layer transparancy? no..

but you can make a shape and create a fill that is a lens and give it an opacity setting..

or take a bitmap and give it a transparancy effect..

you could select a whole vector layer and then give it all a transparency effect